Decade - 1920s

Before the 1920s woman were not allowed to show skin ... Dresses were floor length ... Skirts had to reach ankles ... Shirt had to cover the neck line ... Ect . But the 1920s were different ... Woman became more rebellious ... They cut their hair to a "bob" ... They started to cut their skirts to the knee ... And they even started to wear make up ... They were called "flappers" ... As for the men ... They started to abandon the suits (that they would wear all the time) and get more casual with more athletic type of wear .

Changing fashions hurt the clothing industry.

National Prohibition in the US was repealed because 74% of the voters had come to believe that it failed in its purpose but also created enormous and serious problems.

Easy credit helped hide the weakness in the economy in the 1920's.

a woman that wear short skirts in the 1920s

buying on credit was the "item" that lead to the great depression. * people started buying luxury items * people borrowed money to invest in stocks * thought they could repay the loan when they sold their stocl or profit * b/c of so much buying; people were making ALOT of money * stores sold LOTS of goods; that made value of stock rise * at some pojnt; people could no longer buy things b/c they had spent all their money into paying off their credit * inflamation started; that lead && started the great depression

Because it was believed to get people rich quick.

what did so many banks close during the great depression

I looked this up on the Western Historic Radio Museum site and found prices ranging from 65.00 in 1921 to a Westinghouse Radiolan Grand for 325.00 in 1923. Federal Telephone and Telegraph had one for 123.00 and another for 223.00. Atwater Kent sold one for a 100.00. It seems they were not cheap.

While the effects were too many to list here, two were cynicism of human nature and the rise of Modernism and Post-Impressionism.

The Black Plague is one of the major events.

"America's Sweetheart", Mary Pickford was a famous Canadian born actress in the 1920's. She enchanted audiences and stared in both the silent pics of the 1920's to the talkies of the 1930's.

She was most likely already famous but what turned that level was..."the little black dress".

that was the big boom. during this time many people had extra money,but the constant speding of money through the nation into a great depression. they bought tv's cars. anything you name it they bought it.

the depression in the rural areas and the dust bowl

What were the most important conflicts of the "Jazz Age

There was a lot of agricultural trouble in the South. The North had too many people from immigration. Then there was overuse of the credit card.

1920 - Group of Seven

1921 - Bluenose Racing Shooner

1922 - Documentary Film

1922 - Insulin

1922 - Ski-Doo Snowmobile

1923 - Synchronized Swimming

1923 - RADAR

1925 - Batteryless radio

1927 - Electric Organ

1929 - Frozen Food

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Surrealism and Art Deco

Well, not in any particular country, World War 1 and 2 began in the 1920's

The celebration of technology is common to both periods. In the 1920s, autos, the radio and refrigerators changed people's lives more than computers and the Internet have today. From 1919 to 1929, the number of cars more than tripled, to 23 million.

The Harlem Renaissance

Rural areas did not benefit - the boom was 'city-based'. At least half of all Americans did not benefit from the 1920s economic boom. Whilst some Americans.